{"id":47692,"date":"2022-06-12T21:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47692"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:48:20","slug":"an-impressive-tour-of-gibraltars-massive-underground-military-depots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/12\/an-impressive-tour-of-gibraltars-massive-underground-military-depots\/","title":{"rendered":"An impressive tour of Gibraltar's massive underground military depots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to its strategic position, the British colony of Gibraltar is an important base for the Royal Navy, and that means supplying its ships with fuel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/09\/the-interior-of-two-well-preserved-third-reich-batteries-on-a-british-island\/\">The interior of two well-preserved Third Reich batteries on a British island<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/11\/the-iwo-jima-japanese-military-tunnels-and-why-there-are-so-many-bottles-there\/\">The Iwo Jima Japanese military tunnels and why there are so many bottles there<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Since the Rock of Gibraltar does not have enough space on the surface, <strong>the Royal Navy decided to build huge underground fuel tanks<\/strong> to cover that need. An enormous work, which is part of the <strong>55 kilometers of tunnels that exist in the Rock<\/strong>, and which include everything from old coastal artillery batteries to underground barracks, passing through reservoirs to collect rainwater and ammunition depots.<strong> In some cases, natural caves were used for these excavations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, the always interesting Youtube channel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (I insist on recommending that you subscribe to it) published <strong>a video exploring some abandoned underground fuel tanks in Gibraltar<\/strong>, and the network of tunnels that were used to carry fuel to ships of the Royal Navy. It is, without a doubt, <strong>one of the most impressive videos published by this channel<\/strong>, due to the length of the underground galleries, which form a real labyrinth in which one can find <strong>some beautiful surprises<\/strong> (like the one seen in the video below, from minute 15:00). The video is in Spanish, but you can activate the automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SR24hgNsKSc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to its strategic position, the British colony of Gibraltar is an important base for the Royal Navy, and that means supplying its ships with fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16880],"tags":[3090,3097],"class_list":["post-47692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-infrastructures","tag-gibraltar","tag-royal-navy"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-13 23:47:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}